Young Investigator: Stephen William Holman

Abstract

Supervisor’s supporting comments Stephen has shown himself to be an exceptional advocate for bioanalysis and an outstanding researcher. He quickly adapted his skills to the requirements of his PhD project, acquiring an understanding of mass spectrometry to which even more experienced practitioners would aspire. Within 18 months, he published his first paper, with a second being recently accepted for publication, and he has presented his work at a number of meetings. In September 2008, he received the Michael Barber award for the best student oral presentation at the British Mass Spectrometry Society conference in York, which attests to his enthusiastic delivery as well as the high standard of his science. His outstanding work and position in his peer group was further recognized when he won the poster prize competition, held at the end of the second year of PhD study at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton. Stephen has expanded his project to a self-initiated and exciting area that is not only of extreme relevance to metabolite identification, but also increases fundamental knowledge of gas-phase ion chemistry within the collision cell of a mass spectrometer.